From: Pete Resnick [mailto:[email protected]]
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Document: draft-ietf-tram-turn-mobility-03
Reviewer: Pete Resnick
Review Date: 2016-09-06
IESG Telechat date: 2016-09-01

Summary: This is an odd post-telechat review, but I think the draft has gone 
from "Ready" to "Ready with an issue" because of an IESG Eval change.

Details:

I did not get to my post-Last Call GenART review of 
draft-ietf-tram-turn-mobility until after the telechat. Had I done so, which 
would have been on version -05, I would have said "Looks fine to me". However, 
I happened to look at the latest version, figuring I would just confirm. I 
found that a change was made in response to an IESG Evaluation comment from 
Suresh https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/tram/SYVAXc1dF6xUcm0OQ9xyuaknJco:

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COMMENT:

  *   Section 3.2.1

The section on sending a Refresh when the IP address does not change
needs a little bit more tightening. Given that the server would reject
the request with a mobility ticket in this case, it would be good to put
in an explicit restriction to not add the mobility ticket in the
following statement

OLD: If a client wants to refresh an existing allocation and update its
time-to-expiry or delete an existing allocation, it will send a Refresh
Request as described in Section 7.1 of [RFC5766]

NEW:
If a client wants to refresh an existing allocation and update its
time-to-expiry or delete an existing allocation, it MUST send a Refresh
Request as described in Section 7.1 of [RFC5766] and MUST NOT include a
MOBILITY-TICKET attribute.

I'm not sure if the "MUST NOT" in the latter part of the sentence is correct: 
Since the server will reject it anyway, I don't see the harm in including the 
attribute that the "MUST NOT" implies, but perhaps this is belt-and-braces 
protocol description. On this point, I can't complain too much.

[TR] "MUST NOT" is required to prevent the client from sending the request with 
the ticket which will be rejected by the server and the client will have to 
again re-try the request without the ticket.

However, I believe Suresh was incorrect in suggesting the first "MUST", and it 
should be removed. There is no harm being prevented here. "If a client wants X, 
it MUST send Y" is absolutely no different protocol-wise from "If a client 
wants X, it will send Y". The "MUST" is a misuse. I believe that this change 
should be undone before publication.

[TR] I can the update the line; including Suresh to see if he has any 
objections.

-Tiru

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